Update at 12:50 p.m.: It took the jury of 10 men and two women about 10 minutes to convict James Edward Turner on both felony counts he faced. Testimony in the punishment phase of his trial is expected to begin after a lunch break.

In closing arguments before the case went to the jury, prosecutor Shequitta Kelly said words don’t exist that are bad enough to describe Turner.

“He is he worst of the worst and that is an understatement,” Kelly said. “He redefines words that we use to talk about bad people.”

James Edward Turner faces up to life in prison if a jury convicts him of two felony charges. He was arrested in April and is being held at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, where his bail is set at more than $600,000.

The two victims were among those who testified at the Frank Crowley Courts Building on Wednesday. Prosecutors called more witnesses this morning before resting their case.

Among those to testify this morning was the mother of some of Turner’s children, who said she found a letter Turner wrote from jail to another woman who mothered children with him. The woman to whom the letter was addressed, Kawana Coby, is also now jailed on a felony charge in the case.

In the letter, Turner wrote that he could not believe the family member victim “did this to me.”

“And to think she said I’ve been raping her for five years,” the letter said. “She know better than that. I think she wanted a way out and she got it.”

In the letter, he acknowledged that he was likely the father of his relative’s baby, but he blamed the victim.

“I had been drinking and [the victim] came to my room,” the letter said. “I was asleep and when I woke up, she was on top of me. That I am not lying about.”

The letter included repeated instructions to tear it up after it was read.